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Additional ammunition was found in the 20-year-old would-be gunman’s car, the New York Post reported.

The retreat, whose theme is “Enlightened by a Hidden Glory,” concludes on February 27. Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, of Trondheim, Norway, who was interviewed on the Catholic Culture Podcast in 2024, is preaching the meditations.

Blessed Profittlich “gave Estonia a moral voice at a time when great totalitarian ideologies sought to stifle its identity,” said Archbishop Gallagher, who added that he “knew how to weave a network of human and diplomatic relationships that helped elevate the dignity of an entire people. His mission was not political, yet it had an immense political impact.”

During a pastoral visit to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the Praetorian Barracks in Rome on February 22, Pope Leo XIV told members of the Salesian community there that he had considered becoming a Salesian before joining the Order of Saint Augustine.

Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Archbishop Jean-Marie Speich, 70, from the office of apostolic nuncio to the Netherlands, ten months after Pope Francis appointed him to the post.

In a February 21 meeting with the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Pope Leo XIV approved decrees that advanced five beatification causes.

President Tamás Sulyok of Hungary met with Pope Leo XIV and hailed the Vatican’s advocacy for peace.

The Vatican newspaper decried “four years of bombs, rubble, death, pain, and oppression” as it marked the fourth anniversary of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine with a special section.

The Pope’s address, delivered in Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace on February 21, had four themes: the centrality of the Gospel, the importance of the Church’s social teaching, the “community as an incubator for the future,” and the remembrance of “fathers and mothers in the Spirit,” from Saints Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena to the present day.